Chapter 107 - 106: Officially on Duty, Reporting on the Sudden Incident

An hour and some later.

Li Jing and Chen Yuran had breakfast together, changed into their uniforms, and set off for the patrol bureau.

Afterward, Li Jing made a trip to the Assistant Inspector Department.

His position in the Assistant Inspector Department had been transferred to the patrol system as of yesterday.

The procedures had been completed, but he had to return the Assistant Inspector Department’s credentials and uniform.

After all, there are discerning chips and assistant inspector positioning in the credentials and uniforms, which need to be recovered and destroyed.

After returning the credentials and uniform and doing the registration at the Assistant Inspector Department, Li Jing also conveniently received his salary for nearly half a month’s work there.

The money was not much, just over ten thousand.

To him now, it was hardly a drop in the bucket.

But this ten thousand plus was his first official salary subject to tax in his life.

The two thousand five hundred from Liu Sisi was even less than the minimum livelihood guarantee in Jianghai City.

To pay tax?

No need to think about it.

If not for the lack of an ID card, with this income level, Li Jing could have applied for social assistance back then.

Having returned the credentials and uniforms and received his due salary, Li Jing hurriedly headed to the Security Department of the Patrol Bureau.

As soon as he entered, he saw Chen Yuran speaking with a middle-aged man with a amiable face.

Upon seeing Li Jing come in, Chen Yuran turned her head and called out.

"Li Jing, come over and meet, this is Minister Lu Yuan of our Security Department."

Upon hearing the words, Li Jing hurriedly stepped forward.

"Minister Lu, newcomer Li Jing reporting for duty."

"Good."

Lu Yuan nodded amiably, looked him up and down twice, and showed a satisfied expression.

"I have received your entry information yesterday, and the bureau director also communicated with me about this. To be honest, I am quite surprised that someone of your talents would choose our Security Department. However, after learning about some situations from the director, I am not surprised anymore."

As he spoke, he glanced at Chen Yuran with a grimacing smile.

Seeing this, Li Jing twitched the corner of his mouth.

The implications in Lu Yuan’s words are nothing to him.

He has prepared himself mentally for his arrival.

So, what exactly did Lu Yuan learn from Chen Jing?

Didn’t Chen Jing say he wouldn’t do anything unnecessary?

Chen Yuran, after receiving Lu Yuan’s meaningful gaze, remained unfazed and said with a light tone.

"Minister, about the thing I just told you about...?"

"No problem."

Lu Yuan replied.

As a department head, he had a clearer idea than anyone else of what kind of attitude Chen Yuran held towards her work.

So, he did not beat around the bush and turned to Li Jing.

"I just discussed with Yuran about it, she hopes that you can follow her and Luo Zhize during your one-month internship as a newcomer. If you have no objections, we will set it as such."

"Okay."

Li Jing nodded.

Getting this response, Lu Yuan went on.

"In principle, our Security Department works in three shifts, morning, afternoon, and night. However, in the case of special circumstances, overtime is still required. You are currently in your probationary period, the base salary is one hundred thousand. After this period, the base salary increases to one hundred fifty thousand, with overtime and merit pay calculated separately. Furthermore, after you pass the probationary period, I may put you in other positions according to our needs. Do you have any questions about any of these?"

"No questions."

Li Jing responded formally.

"Good, there is nothing else to say then."

Lu Yuan began, extending his hand.

"Welcome to the Security Department. I hope you will be diligent and responsible in your work. If you have any needs or questions, you can come to my office anytime."

"Understood."

Li Jing extended his hand and lightly clasped it with him, saying.

"I will be in your care from now on, Minister Lu."

"Certainly."

Lu Yuan smiled, then looked at Chen Yuran.

"Yuran, you are still on duty for a while, you first take Li Jing to familiarize himself with the environment and meet the other colleagues. I have some affairs to attend to, so I won’t be able to keep you company."

"Okay, Minister, you can go take care of your business."

Chen Yuran responded.

...

After bidding farewell to Lu Yuan, Chen Yuran led Li Jing around the Security Department office.

The Security Department was the largest department in the patrol system, no competition.

The same was true for both the branch bureau and the General Bureau.

But the Security Department office is not large.

For no other reason, the majority of the Security Department’s personnel are field staff, working outside twenty-four hours a day, ordinarily exposed to wind and rain.

The Security Department office does not have workstations for field staff, only a wardrobe in the changing room.

Those who can get a work-station in the Security Department office are either high-ranking managers or civilian personnel.

At this time, it was still more than ten minutes away from nine o’clock, and it wasn’t the official clock-in time for civilian staff, so there were not many people in the office, just a few who arrived early.

Under the guidance and introduction of Chen Yuran, Li Jing met with the civilian staff in the office one by one and understood their roles.

After rounding it, Chen Yuran led Li Jing out of the office and came outside the patrol bureau. Standing in the patrol yard, she took out her mobile phone and checked the time, saying.

"We field staff in the Security Department do not need to clock in at the office on a regular basis. Once work starts, you just need to pass over the patrol yard, and the identifying chip in the uniform will automatically identify it, then you can go directly to your own jurisdiction."

Upon hearing this, Li Jing raised his eyebrows.

Field staff clocking in just by turning a circle over the patrol yard?

This operation is quite clever.

As he was thinking this, Chen Yuran spoke.

"It’s nine o’clock."

As soon as the words fell, nearly a hundred sword lights shot from all directions to reach the sky above the patrol yard, then scattered in different directions.

Looking up and seeing this, Li Jing couldn’t help but marvel.

He had never noticed before that there would be such a magnificent scene when the Security Department changed shifts.

"Luo Zhize and my jurisdiction is around the Agricultural Market. The area is not small, but it’s not too large. Within one minute, any place in the jurisdiction can basically be reached by controlling the sword at the Three Realm cultivation level, and within five minutes, any place in the jurisdiction can be reached at the Second Realm. By the way, the last time Luo Zhize and I went to the seafood market was because a large number of personnel were transferred away due to the Monster Miasma, and we had no choice but to go."

Chen Yuran began, saying.

"Under normal circumstances, unless other colleagues from the Security Department ask for help, we only need to patrol our jurisdiction. Field work allows for free movement, teammates only need to stay in contact and do not need to stay together. When the communicator receives a report, they can go to the scene together."

"Ah, I have some understanding of the working status of the Security Department."

Li Jing nodded.

He had made up his mind to join the Security Department, so he naturally had some understanding beforehand.

However, what he learned was only the information online, which was not as detailed as what Chen Yuran had described, but essentially the same.

Knowing that Li Jing had some understanding of the work status of the Security Department, Chen Yuran had no intention of saying more, and summoned her flying sword.

"We should go too. Luo Zhize should be in our jurisdiction now. I’ll take you there to meet him. After that, we can act separately."

Having said that, she rose directly into the sky on her sword.

Seeing this, Li Jing summoned Qingfeng and flew up high into the sky.

...

Soon, the two arrived at the corresponding jurisdiction.

The location of the Chicken Shop, the Agricultural Market, was right in the center of the jurisdiction Chen Yuran and Luo Zhize were responsible for, radiating out and covering roughly thirty blocks.

When the two people found Luo Zhize, he was sitting at a street corner not far from the Agricultural Market.

The sword light fell, revealing Li Jing and Chen Yuran individually.

Seeing Li Jing in a patrol uniform coming over with Chen Yuran, Luo Zhize was slightly taken aback.

"You..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Yuran whispered.

"You really are slacking off here again."

"Ahem!"

Luo Zhize choked on his words, got up, and slapped the dust off his butt.

Li Jing smirked at the sight.

He had been wondering how Chen Yuran, who hadn’t even contacted Luo Zhize, found him directly.

Could it be that this guy in front of him was an expert at slacking off?

Looking around, Li Jing found that this place was indeed an excellent place to slack off.

There were obstructions on both sides of the street corner, creating a blind spot.

Only the alleyway that went through the corner allowed seeing what was happening at the street corner from two directions.

Moreover, right next to the corner was an elderly activity area, equipped with benches and exercise equipment.

An elderly activity area, you know, would hardly have anyone around during the day and was only lively at dusk.

Excellent!

He would note down this prime spot!

Seeing Luo Zhize’s awkward expression, Li Jing smiled and reached out his hand.

"Brother Ruo, we meet again. I’ve now joined the Security Department as a patrol officer, and I’ll be learning with you and Yuran as a newbie patrol officer for a while."

This address of "Brother Ruo" hit Luo Zhize right in the heart.

Nothing else mattered.

He honestly couldn’t handle Chen Yuran, who loved to be serious at work.

With an embarrassed laugh, he shook hands with Li Jing, making his exit.

"You really surprised me by becoming a patrol officer from assistant inspector in less than a month. Since we’re in the same team, you don’t have to call me Brother Ruo. You can just call me Zhize."

Just as he was about to say more to gloss over his slacking on duty, all three of their communication earpieces went off, and a gentle female voice came on.

"The General Bureau has received a report that a homicide has occurred at Kangcheng Road No.888. The patrol officers in jurisdiction, please proceed to the scene immediately. Please reply upon hearing this."

This sudden announcement startled all three individuals.

Chen Yuran was the first to react, raising her hand to press the communication earpiece.

"This is Chen Yuran, moving to the scene immediately."

After responding, she used her sword-controlling technique to soar into the sky.

Luo Zhize had apparently become accustomed to this kind of situation, pressing his earpiece to respond.

"This is Luo Zhize, acknowledged."

Then, he turned to laugh.

"You really have some bad luck, encountering a homicide within five minutes of starting your job."

"..."

Li Jing was speechless.

Encountering a homicide case, was it his fault?

Wasn’t he just starting his job?

Speaking of which, why does the address of Kangcheng Road No.888 seem familiar?

Seeing Luo Zhize jesting while performing the sword-controlling technique to take off, Li Jing pushed the communication earpiece.

"This is Li Jing, acknowledged."

After responding to the earpiece, he also performed the sword-controlling technique to take off.

...

Kangcheng Road No.888 was quite a distance from their location.

But as Chen Yuran had mentioned earlier, with their Third Realm cultivation levels, they could reach any location within their jurisdiction within one minute using the sword controlling technique.

Soon, all three arrived at Kangcheng Road No.888 wielding their swords and landed one after another.

Chen Yuran quickly stepped into the office building, followed closely by Luo Zhize.

Li Jing, trailing behind the two, came to a stop and frowned slightly.

Now that he was here, he finally realized why the address of Kangcheng Road No.888 sounded familiar.

In front of him was a towering office building.

The entire building belonged to a single company, Huan Yu Cultural Media.

He had just seen this address in Meng Fanhao’s profile the night before, hence why it sounded familiar.

Now that...

Looking up at the Huan Yu Cultural Media plaque hanging high up on the office building, Li Jing hurriedly followed Chen Yuran and Luo Zhize.

As soon as the three of them entered, a panic-stricken security guard rushed forward.

"The three patrol officers, I was the one who reported the case, our CEO was murdered!"

At these words, Li Jing’s brows furrowed.

CEO?

Meng Fanhao?!

Just when he was bewildered, Chen Yuran asked,

"Where’s the body?"

"In the CEO’s office on the top floor, let me take you there."

The security guard quickly replied, then turned around to lead the way.

Seeing this, Chen Yuran glanced at Li Jing and Luo Zhize, and ordered,

"You, Li Jing, come with me upstairs. We need to ensure the scene is undisturbed first. Zhize, you stay here and put up the police tape. Stop anyone who tries to leave, and don’t let anyone else enter. Notify the Assistant Inspector Department to send a ground team to cooperate with sealing off the scene. Wait until they arrive before you come up."

"Understood."

Li Jing responded.

"Got it."

Luo Zhize nodded too, taking out the police tape from his storage space.

...

Before long, Li Jing and Chen Yuran followed the security guard by elevator to the 27th floor, the top floor of the office building.

As the elevator doors opened with a "ding", they both saw more than twenty pale-faced women crowding the hallway.

All of these women were dressed in business suits. They were attractive and clearly part of the white-collar workforce at Huan Yu Cultural Media.

Seeing these twenty-plus women, Li Jing and Chen Yuran simultaneously frowned.

At first glance, all of them were beautiful office ladies who were trembling in fear. There wasn’t a single man around.

Was this entire floor only occupied by women?

Seeing Li Jing and Chen Yuran being led by the security guard out of the elevator, the women’s ashen faces somewhat regained some color.

But then, someone started crying, and the others soon followed, their tears falling like there was no tomorrow.

The corridor was already narrow. With more than twenty women breaking into tears, the scene was indescribable.

The security guard, who was meant to lead the way, was startled and froze in his tracks upon facing this scene.

Seeing this, Chen Yuran turned to glance at Li Jing and spoke softly.

"The CEO’s office is at the end of the hallway. I’ll go and take a look. You’ll have to pacify them and also try to find out what happened."

"..."

Li Jing.

This joke, was a bit much.

He didn’t know how to pacify women.

Even if he did, his small figure couldn’t handle more than twenty at once!

Chen Yuran, however, didn’t seem to care about his predicament, and marched forward.

Facing this situation, Li Jing had no choice but to follow.

These crying women seemed sensible enough to move aside and clear the way as Chen Yuran and Li Jing approached.

Li Jing intended to simply pass them by, but Chen Yuran who had already reached the end of the hallway and was about to push open the door to the CEO’s office, glanced back at him signaling him to deal with the women, leaving Li Jing no choice but to stop.

Looking at the women weeping in the corridor, Li Jing reluctantly began to speak.

"Please stop crying. I understand that you all are shocked, but..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Chen Yuran, who had just stepped into the CEO’s office at the end of the corridor, came back out, her face pale.